West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-10-20

than water tinged with vinegar. but under
our northern climate the temptation 20 heat
ing stifnulants Ia most mighty. and millions
succunb. When mans habits go wrong
the church drops him, the social circle drops
him, good influences drop him. we all drop
him. or all the men who get OF the track but
Few ever get on again. Near my summer
residence there Is life saving station on the
beach. There are all tho ropes and rockets,
the boats, tho machinery for getting people
of shipwrecks. Summer before last ] saw
there fifteen or twenty men who were break
Tasting, after having just escaped with their
lives and nothing more. Up and down our
coasts are built these useful structures and
the mariners know &C. and they feel that 81
they are driven into the breakers there will
be apt from shore % come n rescue. The
churches OF God ought 20 be 50 many life saw
ing stations, not 50 much 70 help those who
are in smooth wnters, bet those Tho have been
shipwrecked. Come, let us run out the life
boatsl And who will man theml We do not
preach enough 10 such men; we have not
enough faith In their release. Alas. IL when
they come TO hear US we are laboriously try.
ing to show the difference between sublap-
sarianism and supralaprarianism while they
have thousand vipers OF remOrse and DO
spair coiling around aud biting their immortal
spirits. The church Is not chiefly for goodish
sort OF men whose procliyities are all right,
and who could get % heaven praying and
singing in their own hom 8. IL Is on the
beach 70 help the drowning. Those bad
cases arc the o1ses that God likes
70 take hold OF. He can save a
big sinner as well as n small sinner,
and when man calls earnestly 20 God for
help he viii go out TO deliver such one. II
10 were necessary God would come down
from tho sky, followed by all the artillery OF
heaven and 1000 200 angels with drawn
swords. Get 100 such redeemed men In each
OF your churches, and nothing could stand
before them, for such men are generally warm
hearted and enthusiastic. No formal prayers
then. No heartless singing then. No cold
conventionalsms then.
Furthermore. the destitute children OF the
street offer n field of work comparatiyely nm
occupied. The uncared for children are i'm
the majority in Brooklyn and most OF our
cities. When they grow up, il unreformed,
they will outvote your children. and they Will
govern yoar children. The whisky ring will
hatch out other whisky rings and Rrog
shops will kill with their horrid stencil public
sobriety, unless the church OF God rises up
with outstretched armr and enfolds this dying
population in her bosom. Public schools can
not do IT, Art galleries cannot do it, Black
wells Island cannot do t. Almshouses can
not do It, New York Tombs and RAYMOND
Street jail cannot do it. Sing Sing cannot
doit. Church OF God, wake up TO your mag
nliicent mission. You can do it. Get some-
whore, somehow TO work
The Prussian cavalry mount by putting
their right foot into the stirrup, while the
American cavalrymen mount by putting
their left foot into the stirrup. don't care
how you mount your war charger, IL you
only get into this battle for God and get there
soon, right stirrup, or left stirrup, or
no stirrup at all The unoccupied fields
are all around us, and why should
we build on another mans foundationl
That God has called this church to
especial work no one can doubt. It's his
tory has been miraculous. God has helped us
at every step, and though the wheels OF it's
history have made many revolutions, they
have all been forwarded, and never backward,
and now with our borders enlarged and with
important re-enforcements we start on a new
campaign. At Sharon Springs, nineteen
years ago, walking in the park, asked God, il
he had any particular work for me to do, TO
make it plain and would do It, He revealed
to me the style of church we were 20 have an
he revealed to me the architecture, and he re-
yealed TO me the modes of worship, and he
revealed to me my work, and, as far as I'm my
ignorance and weakness 1 have seen the right
way, have tried TO walk in it.
We decided that we want d lt n
soul saving church, and it has been
almost a constant outpouring of the Holy
Ghost. Ye powers of darkness, ye devils i'm
hell, We mean 10 snatch from your dominion
other multitudes, if God will helpus. / have
heard of what was called the ''thundcring
legion" 1t was in l10 part of the Roman
army to which some Christians belonged,
and their prayers, it was said, were an
swered by thunder and lightning and hail
and tempest, which overthrow an invading
army and saved the empire. And / would
TO God that this church may b. so
mighty in prayer and work that it would be-
como a laundering legion before which the
forces Of sin might be routed and the gates OF
hell be made TO tremble. Now that the autumn
has come, and the gospel ship has been re-
paired and enlarged, it is time To launch her
for another voyage. Heave away now, ladsl
shake out the reefs in the foretopsail Come,
o heavenly wind and fill the canvas! Jesus
aboard will assure our safety. Jesus on the
sea will beckon Us forward. Jesus on the
shining shore will welcome us into harbor.
And so it came TO pass that they all escaped
safe to land